No, because I think they’ll send more RD acceptances to compensate for lower yield
For the Class of 2027, 4,994 students were admitted in total, with 3,324 being notified on Ivy Day.
And for co 28
She is among the 5,139 students admitted to the Class of 2028. Regular decision students were notified March 28, the official notification date for the Ivy League.
So an extra 150 students admitted as a whole to make up for the yield rate. If we assume the yield rate is around 60% since the total yield rate for co27 was 66, and about 1600/5000 students admitted were Ed and thus close to 100% yield, which means 3300 out of 5000 committed. We take out 1600 of the 5000, leaving the RD commitances to 1700 out of 3400 or around 50%. We don’t have ED stats yet but I would guess they admitted 75 less in ED if they kept the same class size. However if you ask me 75 less doesn’t really sound like a large decrease, so if we get more than a drop of 75, the people taken off the waitlist increase. Similiarly however I don’t know if people found the waitlist numbers yet but from word of mouth to me it sounds like there are way more cornell waitlists. At my school co27 had 2 waitlists and so far in co28 I’ve heard of 5. At the end of the day it comes down to the school and praying for luck lol.
I estimate ED took in 1500, so, assuming RD yield is still roughly 50%, they got to admit 300 more in order to achieve the enrollment target. Looks like they didn’t take in that many more.
According to one of the last posts of the 2027 Waitlist thread…
“It appears from the numbers Cornell released in September that 304 were enrolled from the waitlist on 362 offers made.”
This confirms your estimate. Between 300-400 waitlist offers need to be made to hit their yield goals.
I disagree, and my reasoning has to do with the current housing situation at Cornell. I think they overenrolled last year and many freshman were housed in forced triples and some dorm lounges were converted to temporary dorm accommodations. The current housing selection for rising sophomores has left many students with off campus housing or on a waitlist(see article). Add in all of the transfer option students coming, and there is a housing shortage. I think this year they will be tighter with the enrollment numbers. Just my two cents.
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I think we’ll get the ED admit numbers sometime soon, I doubt we will be able to estimate it right now.
True, that’s good analysis I didn’t think of. Thanks for sharing.
I think you talked about the consequence/aftermath of over-enrollment for class of 2027. Correct me if I’m wrong. We’ve been talking about how Cornell might handle the waitlist for the purpose of meeting their enrollment target, which has been budgeted before the admission cycle started. There shouldn’t be any major resource issue if they do not over-enroll students this year.
In my opinion, they don’t have to announce the reduction of ED number if they only cut 75 from last year’s 1675. This is a major announcement coming after the ED submission deadline. It caused big unease, even anger, among ED families and other interested groups.
Yes, I did. Obviously, I don’t know what they’re going to do, but it’s possible they will have to house some of those sophomores in the freshman dorms. So the enrollment target may not be as flexible as it was in years past. I’d be surprised if they enroll as many as last year. So that’s less coming off the waitlist. Again, I’m just speculating.
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It isn’t a big difference true, but I think a lot of it is also posturing on Cornell’s behalf to change ED. Also I think this housing issue will also affect this, although from the article I read, cornell wasn’t necessarily over enrolled, just assumed upperclassmen would live off campus.
The planning/budgeting/resource management issues are beyond our control and beyond the scope of our discussions here. I assume they learned a lesson from what happened last year and fixed their budgeted enrollment number (if needed) for this year before the admission cycle started.
From the table above, we see the enrollment number in 2023 is just normal comparing with those in other years. They even enrolled 200 more new students in 2021 than in 2023.
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Does anyone have info on CALS waitlist? I also know of the Transfer Option. How often is this offered, especially for non-New York residents? Do they want us to send a current grade report in addition to a LOCI?
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Waitlist Information | Undergraduate Admissions (cornell.edu)
The page above contains general official info about waitlist. They encourage you to ask your high school to submit updated grade report. They also encourage you to contact your school level admissions office for any questions.
Can we ask the AO for our rank on the waitlist?
They wouldn’t tell you, but probably there’s no ranking on the waitlist, so you got more work to do: LOCI, updated transcript, activities, achievements, etc. My daughter has started to work on these items.
Hi! Would you mind sharing if your son submitted loci etc after accepting his spot in the waitlist last year. Thanks!
Yes, he wrote a LOCI explaining that he would accept if taken off of the waitlist, that it was his number 1 college choice, what accomplishments he had and what he planned on doing at Cornell if accepted.
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